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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Our Lady Weeps in Sài Gòn
Today's daily Church Resources email provides this link to a report on this story: Vigil for Vietnam's 'weeping' virgin.

Here's a link to a huge postcard photo of the church, in which the statue of Our Lady is clearly visible: Notre Dame Basilica in Saigon. And here's an old photo from before the commies took over, taken from Gary Spivey's website:
I visited this basilica in February 1997, when I was in Vietnam during the Tết Nguyên Đán (節元旦) Holiday. [What a street party! It was like Carnival without the decadence.] I also visited the Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Chợ Lớn, Sài Gòn's Chinatown, where President Ngô Ðình Diệm was arrested before his assassination.